Cooking utensil



(N0 Mqdel.)

0. TAYLOR. 0001mm UTENSIL.

No.'Z74,408

. Patented Mar.20,1883.

UNITED STATES PATENT Prion,

CHARLES vV. TAYLOR, OF PORTSMOUTH, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

COOKiNG OUTENSIL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 274,408, dated March 20, 1883.

Application filed January 11, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, CHARLES W. TAYLOR, of Portsmouth, in the county of Buckingham, State of New Hampshire, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Cooking Utensils, of which the following is a description sufficiently full, clear, and exact to enable an y person skilled in the art or science to which said invention appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming apart of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is an isometrical perspective view of the cover detached Fig. 2, a vertical longitudinal section of thefunnel and socket 5 Fig. 3, a perspective view of the lid; and Fig. 4, an isometrical perspective view, showing the apparatus in use on a stove or range.

'Like letters of referenceindicate correspondingparts in the diherent figures of the drawings.

M y in vention relates moreespecially to means for carrying off the steam or fumes generated during the process of cooking vegetables, meats, and other articles of food, or preventing the same from escapinginto the room; and it consists in a novel construction and arrangement of the parts, as hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed, by which a more desirable and effective device of this character is producedthan is now in ordinary use.

The nature and operation of the improvement will be readily understood by all conversant with such matters from the following explanation, its simplicity renderinga-n elaborate description u'nnecessary.

In Fig. 1, A is the cover; B, the socket; O, the funnel; 1), the handle, and E the tunnel. The funnel has a short double-headed cylinder, G, attached to its inner end, the cylinder being arranged transversely thereon and pivoted in the socket B by means of a wire, m, on either side of the socket, the outer ends of the wires being secured at f, and their free or inner ends, 9, bent at right angles to the body, and passed through the sides oi'the socket and heads of the cylinder in such a manner that the funnel and cylinder may be easily detached from the socket by bending or springing the wires outwardly a short distance, and thereby withdrawing the ends 9 from the cylindersage or fine extending through the funnel, cyl;

inder, socket, and cover into the kettle.

In Fig. 3, H is the lid; J J, the uprights or standards; K, the funnel, and L the bandle. This funnel is provided at its inner end. with the short cylinder M, arranged transversely thereon and extending through holes in the inner walls, d d, of the standards, being fitted to work loosely thereon, or in such a manner as to hinge or pivot the funnel and enable its outer end to be elevated or depressed, as desired. The standards are hollow, their lower ends standing over corresponding holes (not shown) in the lid H, and as the cylinder M is not provided with beads or has open ends there is a continuous fine or passage through the funnel, cylinder, standards, and lid into the stove or range.

In theuse of my improvement the cover A is placed on the kettle X, as shown in Fig. 4, the lid H being adjusted over any convenient lid-hole in place of the ordinary lid, and

the two funnels connected as seen at Z.

From the foregoing it will be obvious that when vegetables or other articles of food are boiled or cooked in the kettle the fumes or steam will pass through thefnnnelsGK, standards J, and lid H into the stove P, and out through the funnel R, with the smoke and other products of combustion, in a manner which will be readily understood without a more explicit description.

Byjointing the funnel K in the standards J J and the funnel U in the socket B, the utensil is adapted for use with pots and kettles of different heights, and by making the funnel O detachable from the socketB, larger or smaller covers may be substituted, as occasion requires, the same funnel answering for all sizes.

The tunnel E is designed for filling the kettie without removing the cover, and also for the admission of air to keep up a draftthrough the funnels.

Having thus explained my invention, what I claim is 1. The improved cooking utensil described,

the same consisting of the cover A, provided tached from the cover A, substantially as speciwith the socket B and tunnel E, the funnel O, fied. y

provided with the cylinder G, and wires m, for 3. In a cooking utensil, substantially such as journaling the cylinder G in the socket B, the described,the hollow standards J J ,lid H, fun- I5 5 lid H, provided with the standards J J, and nel K, and cylinder M, constructed,combined,

the funnel K, provided with the cylinder M, and arranged to operate substantially as specicombined and. arranged to operate substanfied.

tially as set forth. CHARLES W. TAYLOR.

2. In a cooking utensil, substantially as de- Witnesses: 1o scribed, the spring-wires m, for journaling the SAMUEL TA'YLOR,

cylinder G, and enabling the funnel Oto be de- CHARLES E. BATCHELDER. 

